A teacher’s perspective: Firing Day at a Charter School

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36. Evo Morales is a champion of anti-imperialism -

holding him up as a capitalist is very disingenuous. I'll cut to the chase: (1) the period between the 30s -80s in the US was very promising why couldn't it keep going? What stopped it? I'd say it is inevitable that capitalism can't be constrained for more than a limited period of time because it is inherent in the system that profit is the motive as opposed to sharing wealth, and (2) I agree that aside from the Paris Commune (which only lasted a very short couple of months before being overtaken) we have not seen a form of sustainable socialism that I could really get on board with. The Soviet Union for example was a great example of full employment but there are too many stories of folks trying to escape that regime for me to completely embrace communism via dictatorship.

The question for me is how do we get to a place of socialism with democracy? I'm not sure I've come to a conclusion on how we can get there, but I'm quite sure it doesn't include individuals accumulating mounds of capital. I meet far too many liberals who want to have their wealth and share it too. Resources are limited - it can't work that way. At least hard-core conservatives are honest about their accumulation of capital and what it means for everyone else. Pretending that we can have something that is impossible is not going to help us get to a better place.